The Americas

[Argentina] [Brazil] [British West Indies] [Chile] [Costa Rica] [Dominican Republic] [Ecuador] [Mexico] 

*Understanding Spanish-Speaking South Americans: Bridging Hemispheres

        Skye Stephenson Intercultural Press, 2003

Argentina

• Books
  • The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Latin America in Translation/En Traduccion/Em Traducão) by Gabriela Nouzeilles and Graciela R. Montaldo (Jan 2003)
  • A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century by Luis Alberto Romero and James P. Brennan
  • Culture and Customs of Argentina by David William Foster, Melissa Fitch Lockhart, and Darrell B. Lockhart (1998)
  • Buenos Aires: A cultural and literary companion Jason Wilson, Interlink Books, 2000
• Films
  • Lugares comunes, Un lugar en el mundo(dir. Adolfo Aristarain)
  • Nueve Reinas (dir. Fabián Bielinsky)
  • El abrazo partido, Sólo por hoy, Todas las azafatas van al cielo (dir. Daniel Burman)
  • La cienaga (dir. Lucrecia Martel)
  • Sol de otoño (dir. Eduardo Mignogna)
  • Diarios de motocicleta (dir. Walter Salles)

Brazil

• Books
  • A History of Brazil, 3rd edition,  E. Bradford Burns, Columbia, 1993. (College textbook)
  • Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics ed. Robert M Levin and John Crocitti, Duke,  1999. (Collection of primary sources from Brazilian history, politics, and culture)
  • Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story, ed. K. David Jackson, Oxford, 2006. (Concise introduction to Brazilian literature)
  • Terra: Struggle of the Landless, by Sebastião Salgado (1998)
• Films
  • Bus 174, (dir. José Padilha and Felipe Lacerda, 2004)
  • Pixote (dir. Hector Babenco, 2001)

Chile

• Books
  • Chile's Political Culture and Parties: An Anthropological Explanation   Larissa Adler Lomnitz and Ada Melnick   University of Notre Dame Press, 2000
  • La Araucana
  • 20 Poemas de Amor y Una Cancion Desesperada- Pablo Neruda
  • El Albergue de las Mujeres Tristes- Marcela Serrano
  • A Nation of Enemies:  Chile Under Pinochet, by Pamela Constable and Arturo Valenzuela, W. W. Norton & Company
• Films
  • Machuca
  • Cachimba

Costa Rica

• A Traveler's Literary Companion, Barbara Ras, Ed., Whereabouts Press, 1994
         
• Good Neighbors: Communicating with the Mexicans,  John C. Condon  Intercultural Press, 1997